Ethical to use untested Ebola drugs, says WHO

Untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization says. The WHO said it was ethical in light of the scale of the outbreak and high number of deaths - over 1,000 people have died in...

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August 4, 2014 -- Updated 1903 GMT (0303 HKT) (CNN) -- Two American missionary workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus were given an experimental drug that seems to have saved their lives. Dr. Kent Brantly was given the medication, ZMapp, shortly after telling his doctors he thought he would die, according to a source familiar with his case. Within an hour, doctors say his...

August 21, 2014 -- Updated 1510 GMT (2310 HKT) (CNN) -- Two American missionaries infected with the deadly Ebola virus were given an experimental drug. Shortly after, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were flown separately from Liberia to Atlanta's Emory University Hospital -- the first human patients with Ebola to ever come to the United States. Writebol was released from...

WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama said this week it was too soon to send experimental drugs for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, which has been hardest hit by the deadly outbreak. Mr Obama said affected countries should instead focus on building a strong public infrastructure. "I think we have to let the science guide us. And I don’t think all the information is in...

The Ebola story has played out in the stock market recently largely on the backs of two companies: drugmakers Chimerix (CMRX) and Tekmira (Toronto Stock Exchange: TKM-CA), which in recent days have started to move in coordinated and opposite directions. That's because their drugs are the most frequently discussed in terms of potential use in American Ebola patients, after...

When there’s a health epidemic, here’s how innovation often happens: Lives are tragically lost, then wall-to-wall media coverage leads to public hysteria and then drug companies respond by racing to find treatment. Other public health crises, including the AIDS epidemic, swine flu, and the SARS outbreak have followed this same script—and now it’s Ebola’s turn. As the epidemic...

Japan said Monday it is ready to provide a Japanese-developed anti-influenza drug as potential treatment to fight the rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that Japan can offer the anti-influenza tablet favipiravir, developed by a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings Corp., any time at the request of the World Health Organization....

The drugs are held back with no promise regulatory agencies around the world, including the FDA, will ever give pharmaceutical companies the green light to take the product to market. International medical experts, as WND has previously reported, warn the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is out of control after the WHO drastically underestimated its scope in the early stages....

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Ebola Outbreak : 56 People Dead In Two Days Death Toll Rise | 'International Emergency'

There were 128 new cases in the same period, as West Africa is gripped by the worst-ever outbreak of the tropical virus.
There have been 56 more deaths in a 48-hour period in West Africa's ebola outbreak, bringing the total number of fatalities to 1,069.
The vast majority of deaths have been in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
There have also been three deaths in Nigeria, following the worst-ever outbreak which began in March.
In the two days to August 11, there were 128 new cases, meaning a total of 1,975, according to the World Health Organisation.
Many of the dead are health workers, who are often working with inadequate supplies and protection.
Among the victims is the first European - a Spanish priest who died on Tuesday in a Madrid hospital after being infected while treating ebola patients in Liberia.
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Liberia to receive Zmapp drug to treat Ebola virus

Liberia will receive an untested experimental drug, Zmapp, to treat people infected with Ebola, the Liberian government says. The move came after a request t...

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